Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTE TO J. V. STALIN WITH A DRAFT TELEGRAM TO G. V. CHICHERIN[1]

Dictated:Dictated by phone on April 21, 1922Published:First published in 1959 in LeninMiscellany XXXVI.

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Comrade Stalin

Pleasehave the following telegram of mine sent to
Chicherin, if the Politbureau members have no objection.

“ToComrade Chicherin

“Ihave never had any doubts that Lloyd George is
acting under the pressure of British sharks and that.
Britain will not stay on without France, but I think that this
should not alter our policy in the slightest, and that we
should not be afraid of the conference breaking up. Wecannot accept recognition of the private debts under any
circumstances. I think I know the actual situation.

[1]Thistelegram of Lenin’s sent to Genoa on April 21, 1922, was
in reply to G. V. Chicherin’s telegram of April 20, objecting
to Lenin’s assessment of the situation at the conference and
saying that it, was “in fact mainly Lloyd George himself who had
an interest” in the question of compensating foreigners for the
losses arising from the nationalisation of their property, “because
pressure was being brought to bear on him by the almighty
British sharks” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).